Michael Herger;207228 Wrote: > While I do not agree with this global verdict, I do so with your main > point. In fact, your examples show one thing: there are too many > options. > That's not a UI problem ;-). (BTW: Most of the parameters you list have > > been asked for by users)
I disagree. I see it as very much a UI problem. I realize many of the preferences interface issues are being addressed for SlimServer 7, so it's obvious that SD is aware of many of them. Number one, the nearly complete lack of help. Poor or lacking descriptions for nearly all settings. Maybe this is driven by the insistence on translations for nearly every word in the web UI. Surely someone is going to be reluctant to add or change a description for a simple option when it needs to be retranslated into Hebrew and a dozen other languages. Hide some of the 'advanced' options where they won't confuse people, but where they can be gotten to. Increase the sophistication and usability of the web options forms. For example, selecting one setting might enable another selection, changing another setting hides yet another or even a group of settings. Group things a little more logically. Oh, and choose some better default settings (Players set to REPEAT by default. Huh?). I run many desktop apps with several times the number of options of SlimServer. The difference is in the user interface. I've never seen many of the screens that house a lot of the options - because I've never needed to. But they're there in case I ever need them. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
